"A 30 foot rise in sea level would flood more (proportionally) of Ireland than the USA."

Richard that is so far off the topic that you will probably have to start another thread to get an answer.

On the other hand, another unrelated point is that Canada is the number one emitter of CO2 per person and along with Russia and Denmark (owner of Greenland) only one of three countries likely to see an increase in inhabitable real estate due to global warming.

Then there is SINSULL's very reasonable challenge to Ollie to explain his country's stance on Global warming. As a Citizen of Canada where he is from and resident of North Carolina, the place he attacked, I can certainly say that the Alberta Tar Sands Project, probably the largest single man made source of CO2 pollution in the history of mankind on this Earth which the Governments of Canada and Alberta fully support and heavily subsidized with seed money, going to Janie's point about money is bragged about as "domestic energy" in Exxon Mobil ads here, is a much much greater threat to the North Carolina Outer Banks than a few extra building permits.

I furthermore hereby extend Sinsull's challenge to you Richard. Is the UK willing to give up it's coal industry to keep Ireland form sinking? How about the North Sea offshore oil extraction.

And speaking of Offshore oil extraction. Ireland is drilling offshore for oil and gas right now. You think they will forgo the revenue to save their shores? Of course you don't. You are not delusional. An Ireland burns peat. No, they have no room to point the fingers of others.

Does any industrial nation?
Non-industrial nations burn forests for agriculture.

Isn't this a "delusion" that is much larger than a few building permits on North Carolina beaches?